LAMB HOUSE,
RYE,
SUSSEX.
21st December, 1905
Dear Mr. Munro,
I am sending you to-day a "Philadelphia," to follow the
"Boston;" and have kept it a Philadelphia pure and simple for the
same reason that I so kept the Boston. May a patient reception
await it, in spite of its being, I blush to say, a little longer
than I meant. I meant to keep it down to 45 typed pages, and it
makes nearly fifty (though the number is higher, three or four are
out.) A "Washington" pure and simple is shortly to follow.
I cabled you at once, after your last,
my hope that you would use and divide "N. Y., Social Notes," and
I trust you have been able to do so conveniently, with a workable
division. Also that the first part may be in the January Review;
though I have not yet heard of the arrival in London of the proofs
of this thing you were sending. They may easily have come,
however, as I hope, without my knowledge. I also cabled you
about the Sherman statue matter -- as to which you must let me
say that I think you were (in my interpretation of it etc.) over-
anxious. I assume I understood your cable rightly -- that the
passage was to stand; but I felt, myself, that there was no
aberration at all in my remarks. The custom of representing
great blood-drenched Generals as symbols, and with the attributes,
of Peace is exactly what I was moved to reflect on; being meanwhile,
as it seemed to me, very handsome and civil about the thing, and
about dear Saint-Gaudens, altogether! But all's well that ends
well! I send you all the compliments of the season and all good
wishes for the coming year.
Yours very truly
Henry James
David A. Munro, Esq.
